ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jakob Trollback - Designer
Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.

Why you should listen

Jakob Trollback is a designer and creative thinker -- and he's also a DJ, which becomes clear when you see the work of his firm, Trollback + Company, distinguished by an almost musical attention to rhythm, form and detail.

As creative director for R/GA in the 1990s, Jakob Trollback was among the earliest group of designers to understand and embrace the importance of digital media, and the effect it would have on culture at large. Working on film titles, TV commercials, interactive displays ... Trollback translated the sea changes in media for advertisers and marketers, as well as Hollywood.

His firm Trollback + Company speciaizes in motion graphics -- those often-overlooked elements that set the tone for film and TV titles, short-form video and TV ad campaigns. Recently, Trollback designed the low-key but perfect titles for Deborah Scranton's Frontline documentary Bad Voodoo's War. They've also designed the video wall at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in New York City.

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Jakob Trollback: A new kind of music video

Jakob Trollback tar ett nytt grepp om musikvideon

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Hur skulle en musikvideo se ut om den regisserades av musiken, som ett rent uttryck för en fantastisk sång, snarare än driven av en filmskapares koncept? Designern Jakob Trollback delar med sig av resultatet av sitt experimentet.
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I’m workingarbetssätt a lot with motionrörelse and animationanimation,
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Jag jobbar mycket med rörelse och animation,
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and alsoockså I'm an oldgammal DJDJ and a musicianmusiker.
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och jag är också en gammal DJ och musiker.
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So, musicmusik videosvideoklipp are something that I always foundhittades interestingintressant,
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Så musikvideor är något jag alltid varit intresserad av,
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but they always seemverka to be so reactivereaktiva.
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men de verkade alltid vara så reaktiva.
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So I was thinkingtänkande, can you removeavlägsna us as creatorsskapare
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Så jag funderade på om man kan avlägsna oss som skapare
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and try to make the musicmusik be the voiceröst
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och låta musiken själv uttrycka sig
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and have the animationanimation followingföljande it?
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och styra animationen?
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So with two designersdesigners, TolgaTolga and ChristinaChristina, at my officekontor, we tooktog a trackspåra --
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Så tillsammans med två designers, Tolga och Christina, tog vi ett spår
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manymånga of you probablyförmodligen know it. It’s about 25 yearsår oldgammal,
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som många av er antagligen känner igen. Det är ungefär 25 år gammalt,
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and it's DavidDavid ByrneByrne and BrianBrian EnoEno --
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det är David Byrne och Brian Eno -
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and we did this little animationanimation.
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och vi skapade den här lilla animationen.
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And I think that it's maybe interestingintressant, alsoockså,
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Och jag tror också att den kan vara intressant
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that it dealserbjudanden with two problematicproblematisk issuesfrågor,
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för att den tar upp de två problematiska frågorna
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whichsom are risingstigande watersvattnen and religionreligion.
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om höjda vattennivåer och religion.
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SongLåt: Before God destroyedförstörd the people on the EarthJorden,
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Sång: Innan Gud utrotade jordens befolkning,
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he warnedvarnade NoahNoah to buildbygga an ArkArken.
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varnade han Noak att bygga en ark.
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And after NoahNoah builtbyggd his ArkArken,
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Och då Noak byggt sin ark,
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I believe he told NoahNoah to warnvarna the people
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tror jag han sa till Noak att varna folket
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that they mustmåste changeByta all theirderas wickedWicked wayssätt
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att de måste upphöra med sin ondska
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before he come upon them and destroyförstöra them.
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innan han kommer och förgör dem.
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And when NoahNoah had doneGjort builtbyggd his ArkArken,
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Och när Noak hade byggt sin ark,
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I understandförstå that somebodynågon beganbörjade to rendrämna a songlåt.
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vet jag att någon började sjunga.
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And the songlåt beganbörjade to moveflytta on I understandförstå like this.
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Och sången började röra sig så här.
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And when NoahNoah had doneGjort builtbyggd his ArkArken ...
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Och när Noak hade byggt sin ark
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MoveFlytta on ... In factfaktum ... ConcernOro ...
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Röra sig... Faktiskt... Oro...
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So they get tiredtrött, has come darkmörk and rainregn; they get wearytrötta and tiredtrött.
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Så de blir trötta, kommit regn och mörker ; de blir matta och trötta.
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And then he wentåkte and knockedknackade an oldgammal ladylady househus.
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Och sedan knackade han på hos en gammal kvinna.
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And oldgammal ladylady ransprang to the doordörr and say, "Who is it?"
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Och kvinnan kom till dörren och frågade "vem är det?"
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JackJack say, "Me, Mama-sanMama-san, could we spendspendera the night here?
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Jack sa, "Jag, kära mor, kan vi sova här?"
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Because we’reRe farlångt from home, we’reRe very tiredtrött."
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För vi är långt hemifrån, vi är väldigt trötta."
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And the oldgammal ladylady said, "Oh yes, come on in."
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Och den gamla kvinnan sa, "O ja, kom in."
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It was come darkmörk and rainregn, will make you wearytrötta and tiredtrött.
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Det kommit mörker och regn, gör er matta och trötta.
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Translated by Johan Luyckx
Reviewed by Johan Cegrell

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jakob Trollback - Designer
Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.

Why you should listen

Jakob Trollback is a designer and creative thinker -- and he's also a DJ, which becomes clear when you see the work of his firm, Trollback + Company, distinguished by an almost musical attention to rhythm, form and detail.

As creative director for R/GA in the 1990s, Jakob Trollback was among the earliest group of designers to understand and embrace the importance of digital media, and the effect it would have on culture at large. Working on film titles, TV commercials, interactive displays ... Trollback translated the sea changes in media for advertisers and marketers, as well as Hollywood.

His firm Trollback + Company speciaizes in motion graphics -- those often-overlooked elements that set the tone for film and TV titles, short-form video and TV ad campaigns. Recently, Trollback designed the low-key but perfect titles for Deborah Scranton's Frontline documentary Bad Voodoo's War. They've also designed the video wall at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in New York City.

More profile about the speaker
Jakob Trollback | Speaker | TED.com